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Dear USC, Please Give Us Scholarships As We Also Did Good At Sports
The FBI documents on the massive college admissions bribery scandal suggest that we can improve our odds of being accepted into elite colleges and also the University of Southern California by submitting photo evidence of us playing sports. Some of the Deadspin staff would like to take advantage of ...
Here Are All The Incredible Details From The College Admissions Bribery Scandal<em></em>
Surely by now you have read about the hilarious FBI bust on and subsequent dismantling of The Edge College & Career Network (aka The Key), and its nefarious efforts to get the underachieving sons and daughters of the rich into colleges they either didn’t deserve to attend on merits or couldn’t bribe...
Five-Star USC Wideout Bru McCoy Got Screwed By Kliff Kingsbury
In an otherwise disappointing 2019 recruiting class for a USC football team coming off a 5-7 season, wide receiver Bru McCoy was the undisputed gem. A five-star ranked by some as one of the top 10 players in the country, the California native McCoy, together with fellow wideout Kyle Ford, was primed...
Report: New USC Offensive Coordinator Kliff Kingsbury Is Now New Arizona Cardinals Head Coach Kliff Kingsbury
It feels like barely even a month ago that Kliff Kingsbury departed his head coaching gig at Texas Tech and arrived at USC to be the Trojans’ new offensive coordinator. But now, after a remarkable run that saw USC go 0-0 and Kingsbury’s offense put up #DIV/0! yards per game, the 39-year-old is heade...
Report: Kliff Kingsbury Could Pay His Own Buyout At USC To Pursue NFL Head-Coaching Jobs
USC’s offensive coordinator, Kliff Kingsbury, could resign from his position with the program so that he can get a fair shot at following his NFL aspirations, according to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio....
Report: Untrained Pac-12 Exec Was Allowed To Reverse Controversial Targeting Penalty
According to internal documents obtained by Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel, a Pac-12 executive who is not a trained official put his thumb on the scale and personally overruled what should have been a targeting penalty. On the final play of the third quarter of Washington State’s Sep. 21 loss to USC, WSU...
USC Is Ready To Unveil Its Next Golden Boy Quarterback
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Steve Sarkisian Lost His Wrongful Termination Suit Against USC
Current Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator and former USC head coach Steve Sarkisian has lost his $30 million lawsuit against his old employer, which he filed in December 2015 after USC fired him for the public problems caused by his alcoholism. While coaching at USC, Sarkisian got drunk and yel...
USC Wins National Championship On Wild 4x400 Comeback As Announcers Declare Them Dead
Coming into the 4x400 meter relay at tonight’s NCAA track and field championships, the USC women had to win to clinch a national title; otherwise, Georgia would win and pull off a rare sweep of the men’s and women’s titles. When USC mangled the handoff on the final exchange (about 2:48 into the vide...
Rai Benjamin Runs 47.02 400m Hurdles, Tied For Second-Fastest In Human History
USC’s Rai Benjamin claimed the national championship in the 400 meter hurdles today in a mind-blowing 47.02, tying Edwin Moses’s former world record for the second-fastest time in human history in the event....
Jury Begrudgingly Rules Against Former USC Coach Todd McNair In NCAA Defamation Suit
After three days of deliberation, the jury in Todd McNair’s defamation lawsuit against the NCAA ruled in favor of college sports’ governing body. The jury reportedly sided with the NCAA 9-3, deciding it did not make false statements about McNair....
Jim Mora: "I Would Take Sam Darnold If I Were The Browns"
Former UCLA head coach Jim Mora thinks the Cleveland Browns should select Sam Darnold, from crosstown rival USC, with the first pick in the draft.* Mora said this on live television even though Josh Rosen, whom he coached at UCLA, is also right there at the top of most draft boards....
Truly There Is Nothing Fishy About USC Hiring The Father Of Two Top Basketball Recruits
In a move that is 100 percent about improving the coaching staff and has absolutely nothing at all to do with the fact that his sons are two of the top high school basketball players in the world, the USC Trojans have added AAU coach Eric Mobley to their men’s basketball coaching staff....
We Got Some Extremely Lame Pac-12 Coach Beef
Colorado Buffaloes men’s basketball is about as mediocre this year as it is almost every year, but on Saturday, their home win against Arizona had coach Tad Boyle feeling a little bit cocky:...
USC Finally Shows Some Fight
Tonight’s big Cotton Bowl matchup proved to be a snoozer, as Ohio State dominated USC and Trojans quarterback Sam Darnold pooped all over the field in what can only be seen as a desperate attempt to avoid being drafted by the Browns. USC finally woke up with two minutes left, showing a bit of grit a...
USC Fakes Out Everyone With Genius Decoy Punt Return
Michael Pittman Jr. went 72 yards for a punt return touchdown on a play that faked out UCLA and ABC/ESPN’s camera operator as nearly every Bruin bit on a decoy punt return that opened the scoring in tonight’s battle of L.A. ...
Police Seek Felony Charges Against USC Player Who Leveled Fan
The USC Trojans lost 30-27 to the Washington State Cougars on Sept. 29, and at the end of the game the Washington State fans rushed the field. During the chaos, USC defensive lineman Liam Jimmons was seen laying out one of the Washington State fans....
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Four College Basketball Coaches Charged With Bribery And Fraud [Updated]
Four college basketball coaches have been arrested after being charged by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney with various counts of bribery and fraud. The arrests resulted from a nearly two-year investigation that examined the shady links between college basketball coaches and outside businesses, including...
USC Pretends Like It Didn't Lose The 2006 Rose Bowl
The 2005-06 USC Trojans were an unholy powerhouse that went on an 12-0 romp through college football only to be upended in the 2006 Rose Bowl by Vince Young and the Texas Longhorns. The Trojans later had to vacate all 12 wins from that season due to the Reggie Bush scandal, but, as Austin sports anc...
Girlfriend Of Former USC Kicker Says School "Railroaded" Him In Title IX Investigation
In February the USC Trojans suspended placekicker Matt Boermeester indefinitely for what was called a “code of conduct issue.” The player’s status with the program was vague as the year went on, until last week, when the school finally confirmed Boermeester was off the roster. The reason Boermeeste...